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Mithalwen · 03-15-2007, 06:35 AM

I discovered the surname "Gloin" on a headstone at the local cemetary.

What really surprised me was that I had never noticed it before since it it an older stone next to the footpath and although I only walk through that way nowadays if I am leaving the car at the garage for it's MOT or something, the graveyard is right next to my old school so I must have walked past it nearly every day for 5 years in the first height of my Tolkien addiction ...

03-15-2007, 06:35 AM	#11
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	I discovered the surname "Gloin" on a headstone at the local cemetary. What really surprised me was that I had never noticed it before since it it an older stone next to the footpath and although I only walk through that way nowadays if I am leaving the car at the garage for it's MOT or something, the graveyard is right next to my old school so I must have walked past it nearly every day for 5 years in the first height of my Tolkien addiction ... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace